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  • URL Management for a Global Business

    Content Here
    seth
    2 Feb 2012 | 9:02 am
    I just published my first blog post on the Lionbridge blogs site.  It’s all about managing URLs for global websites and discusses when to use TLDs, sub-domains, and paths.  Here is the link:  URL Management for a Global Business.

  • Imperative Number 2 of 6 Facing Information Professionals - Digitize Processes

    Digital Landfill
    John Mancini
    8 Feb 2012 | 7:20 am
    Imperative Number 2 of 6 Facing Information Professionals Digitize processes: Drive paper bottlenecks out of processes and automate process flows. No matter how elegant the front-end, Systems of Engagement cannot operate in an environment in which the processes that support and complement these Systems of Engagement are engulfed by paper.      The reality of most organizations is that they exist in hybrid environment in which process information may come from paper documents, paper forms, web forms, faxes, emails, SMS, mobile and social.  Automated capture as early as…

  • Symbiosis of Cloud and On-Premise Enterprises

    Content Log
    John Newton
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:06 am
    Symbiosis: One is free to move, the other is not. But they both need each other.  Eventually we will see computing as a utility like electricity that will be consumed on demand. I also believe that cloud infrastructure providers will ultimately be able to undercut the cost advantages and carbon footprint of the data centers of even the largest companies. Just not yet. As Gartner’s 2012 Predicts, Cloud Computing dated December 8, 2011: "The perceived (and real) risks to the technical reliability, integrity and security of applications and data that are entrusted to cloud providers hold back…

  • Thoughts on the Splunk IPO and S-1

    Kellblog
    Dave Kellogg
    20 Jan 2012 | 8:35 am
    I like Splunk.  I like Godfrey Sullivan and what he’s done with the company.  Steve Sommer is a great marketing guy and I think he’s done a superb job with Splunk’s marketing, particularly in imbuing the company with a hip, fun, consistent corporate personality, making them the Virgin Americas of log file analysis. I also like Splunk because many months ago, they let me riff with Godfrey and many members of the e-staff about marketing and strategy.  They were smart and it was fun.  They even gave me a superb bottle of wine for my troubles. I like Splunk because, unlike…

  • An Ice Skating Track And Opportunities To Start Conversations.

    The Project Shrink
    Bas
    5 Feb 2012 | 7:12 am
    Yes, we have snow. Like almost everybody else. The neighbors created an ice-skating track by flooding a small field. The ice is not perfect. But … it’s just perfect. People get together. The field of frozen water is just a good excuse to get out and have some fun. It’s not that if there isn’t an ice-skating track you don’t meet. But this is just such a great opportunity. And a natural one. You don’t have to plan. You just go there. Show up. That’s it. The track is a catalyst for conversations. Communities have more places like that. Libraries for example:…
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  • URL Management for a Global Business

    seth
    2 Feb 2012 | 9:02 am
    I just published my first blog post on the Lionbridge blogs site.  It’s all about managing URLs for global websites and discusses when to use TLDs, sub-domains, and paths.  Here is the link:  URL Management for a Global Business.

  • A content manager’s many hats

    seth
    1 Feb 2012 | 8:07 am
    CMSWire’s recent article The Seven Hats Content Managers Will Wear in 2012 drives home a point that I have been making a lot recently. It’s the point that inspired me to take a full-time job with Lionbridge to scale the Global Marketing Operations offering. Engaging audiences with content is hard work and it doesn’t matter [...]

  • Hey Look! I am on the TV!

    seth
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:34 pm
    Last week I had the privilege of joining Scott Liewehr on CMS Connected, a web television show about content management. The topic was “2011 WCM Year in Review” and we covered a lot of ground: mobile, engagement, and the cloud. Tom Wentworth, from Ektron dropped in on Skype for a cameo appearance too. I had [...]

  • Fun with static publishing

    seth
    17 Jan 2012 | 10:18 am
    In the old days, static publishing (or baking, where the CMS generates static HTML files at publish time), was pretty much the standard. Most of the WCM products on the market did static publishing: Interwoven, Tridion, RedDot, Percussion …. Even the frying systems like Vignette and FatWire (FutureTense/OpenMarket back then) relied so heavily on caching [...]

  • Legacy reports available

    seth
    13 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    If you read Content Here through RSS or just follow links to individual articles, you may have missed my new publications page. In addition to listing some articles that I have published on other sites, the publications page now includes reports that I used to sell here at Content Here. I have not kept these [...]
 
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    Digital Landfill

  • Imperative Number 2 of 6 Facing Information Professionals - Digitize Processes

    John Mancini
    8 Feb 2012 | 7:20 am
    Imperative Number 2 of 6 Facing Information Professionals Digitize processes: Drive paper bottlenecks out of processes and automate process flows. No matter how elegant the front-end, Systems of Engagement cannot operate in an environment in which the processes that support and complement these Systems of Engagement are engulfed by paper.      The reality of most organizations is that they exist in hybrid environment in which process information may come from paper documents, paper forms, web forms, faxes, emails, SMS, mobile and social.  Automated capture as early as…

  • We're now accepting sponsors for our May and October seminar series - while they last

    John Mancini
    7 Feb 2012 | 1:52 pm
    Call for Sponsors: AIIM Process Revolution Seminars – 13 Cities in 2012 AIIM has opened the call for sponsors for our 13-city Seminar Program to be held in May (West) and October (East) 2012. With 72% of the organizations we've surveyed looking to add capabilities to their current ECM deployments; AIIM events are seeing double-digit growth. We invite our sponsors to help us inform and educate attendees in this face-to-face event series. We'll be showcasing the latest in Content Capture and Process Automation, Mobile Collaboration and the role of Cloud solutions for content…

  • Eliminating Paper from Processes Improves Customer Response Times by 300%

    John Mancini
    7 Feb 2012 | 1:14 pm
    Today we released a new industry watch research paper, titled “The Paper Free Office - Dream or Reality.” The research finds that removing paper from business continues to be challenging, despite data that shows significant responsiveness and productivity gains in customer service when paper-based bottlenecks are eliminated from business processes. Speed of response times are also realized by employees working remotely in the field or home offices when the ability to share and search is improved by using digitized content. According to Doug Miles, director of market intelligence at…

  • What they are saying about #AIIM Certified Information Professionals (#CIP)

    John Mancini
    6 Feb 2012 | 1:27 pm
    "There will always be a role in organizations for those with pure technical knowledge. But the real value add in the world of Systems of Engagement comes from those who can place these skills in a broader context — in the context of the business. That's what AIIM's Certified Information Professional program is all about."   --Geoffrey Moore, noted author (Crossing the Chasm and Escape Velocity, among many others)  -------------------------------------------------------------- “There is hardly any person I know who would not benefit from the content of…

  • Imperative Number 1 of 6 Facing Information Professionals - Make Everything Mobile

    John Mancini
    6 Feb 2012 | 9:22 am
    Imperative Number 1 of 6 Facing Information Professionals Make everything mobile: Redefine content delivery and process automation to take advantage of mobile devices and mobile workforces. Ubiquitous mobile computing is one of the core underlying drivers for Systems of Engagement and continues to shape the future of these systems.  In the span of a decade, cell phones have spread to essentially every person and location on the planet. Less than half the devices accessing the Internet run on Windows, and the shipments of smartphones and tablets are now larger than the shipments of…
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  • Symbiosis of Cloud and On-Premise Enterprises

    John Newton
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:06 am
    Symbiosis: One is free to move, the other is not. But they both need each other.  Eventually we will see computing as a utility like electricity that will be consumed on demand. I also believe that cloud infrastructure providers will ultimately be able to undercut the cost advantages and carbon footprint of the data centers of even the largest companies. Just not yet. As Gartner’s 2012 Predicts, Cloud Computing dated December 8, 2011: "The perceived (and real) risks to the technical reliability, integrity and security of applications and data that are entrusted to cloud providers hold back…

  • Content Monkey Predicts 2012

    John Newton
    31 Jan 2012 | 9:31 am
    It's the last day of January, so I am not too late for predictions for the new year. Besides, it's my birthday and what a great time to predict the future. This year I am influenced by a book I received for Christmas, "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Nobel prize laureate Daniel Kahneman, from our one of investors, Accel Partners. Every year they send out a profound book to their portfolio companies and boy is this one potentially life changing. I won't go into the book in detail, but one of the things that Kahneman, who is a psychologist and decision theorist, discusses is why experts are so bad…

  • HP's Board: What were they thinking?!

    John Newton
    31 Aug 2011 | 10:57 am
    What are they thinking? HP buying Autonomy! It took everybody by surprise, probably because it isn't the most logical of moves in today's industry. The last rumor I heard connected to Autonomy was nearly a year ago that they were considering buying the Documentum (or should I say "Intelligent Information") division of EMC. But HP giving up on mobile and the PC business to go into search, content management, customer engagement and a much bigger, fuzzier information management realm?  As a product strategy it could have been kind of interesting. Get out of the commodity PC and device…

  • A Month in the Bay Area

    John Newton
    31 Aug 2011 | 9:49 am
    Sixteen years ago, my wife, my 9 month-old son and I left the San Francisco Bay area to live in the UK. I was still at Documentum, but I had always wanted to return after starting a company, which ended up being Documentum. Since then I have constantly flown back and forth between the UK and SFO.  Friday before last, I returned from one month in the bay area with my family. This is not something I tweeted about or put onto Facebook. There were enough warnings about this on the Internet to make sure I didn't say "Hey burglars! You still have 31 days left to rob my house!" In fact, I…

  • Alfresco launches new Activiti Business Process Management Initiative

    John Newton
    17 May 2010 | 8:52 am
    Today Alfresco launched a new open source project, Activiti Business Process Management Suite along with the Spring Source division of VMware, Signavio and Camunda. We are also very pleased that Tom Baeyens, project founder of JBPM and BPM expert, has joined Alfresco along with his fellow architect Joram Barrez. They bring a wealth of business process experience to a clean slate to build a next generation BPM system that will be licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. This combination can have profound implications for both the business process and content management spaces. Tom Baeyens …
 
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    Kellblog

  • Thoughts on the Splunk IPO and S-1

    Dave Kellogg
    20 Jan 2012 | 8:35 am
    I like Splunk.  I like Godfrey Sullivan and what he’s done with the company.  Steve Sommer is a great marketing guy and I think he’s done a superb job with Splunk’s marketing, particularly in imbuing the company with a hip, fun, consistent corporate personality, making them the Virgin Americas of log file analysis. I also like Splunk because many months ago, they let me riff with Godfrey and many members of the e-staff about marketing and strategy.  They were smart and it was fun.  They even gave me a superb bottle of wine for my troubles. I like Splunk because, unlike…

  • The One Key to Dealing with Senior Executives: Answer the Question!

    Dave Kellogg
    17 Jan 2012 | 8:57 am
    I can’t tell you how many times over the years that I’ve needed to coach people to “answer the question” when dealing with senior executives.  It amazes me to sit in meetings and watch people hem, haw, dodge, extemporize and do just about anything but answer the question they were asked.  I have a old friend who used to say that corporate meetings were often “parallel independent conversations” due to two factors:  [1] the non-answering of questions posed and [2] the non-listening that comes from people spending all their energy preparing what they want…

  • Two Bosses Are Better Than One: Thoughts on the Virtues of Matrixed Organizations

    Dave Kellogg
    30 Dec 2011 | 3:07 pm
    When I was new to the workforce, I was violently opposed to matrixed organizational structures.  “They’re bullsh*t,” I thought, “people will always favor one direction over the other, making one of the two managers superfluous.  And, if that’s the case, then why bother at all?” It was only as Business Objects grew, and me with it, that I realized matrix structures weren’t an “if” but a “when” and the ability to work within such structures would become a defining attribute of someone who “could scale” within the…

  • The Privacy Inversion

    Dave Kellogg
    21 Dec 2011 | 11:00 am
    I’ve always been an avid reader, particularly when I was younger and seemed to have more time.  I’ve always loved bookstores.  I’d spend hours in them browsing from category to category.  One category I never understood was Self Help, where the titles were usually so dramatic that it had to depress sales.  After all, it took real guts to grab some of those books, stand in line, hand them to a cashier, and buy them. What were you supposed to do if you were waiting for 10 minutes behind a woman holding Men Who Can’t Love and Women Who Love Too Much?  Quickly hop off…

  • First-Day Stock Price Appreciation is Not the Correct Measure of IPO Success

    Dave Kellogg
    19 Dec 2011 | 11:21 am
    Zynga went public last Friday.  The company raised $100M and was valued at around $7B off TTM revenues of about $1B (see S-1 here).  This puts the Zynga’s valuation in the same range as Electronic Arts, a company founded in 1982 and whose TTM revenues are 3.6x times larger at $3.6B.  One might easily say:  “Wow!” But because the shares did not rocket upwards on the first day of trading the media portrayed the IPO as lackluster.  Consider, for example, some of these headlines: Game Maker Zynga Finds Barren Fields in IPO-ville (San Jose Mercury News print headline) Zynga IPO…
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  • An Ice Skating Track And Opportunities To Start Conversations.

    Bas
    5 Feb 2012 | 7:12 am
    Yes, we have snow. Like almost everybody else. The neighbors created an ice-skating track by flooding a small field. The ice is not perfect. But … it’s just perfect. People get together. The field of frozen water is just a good excuse to get out and have some fun. It’s not that if there isn’t an ice-skating track you don’t meet. But this is just such a great opportunity. And a natural one. You don’t have to plan. You just go there. Show up. That’s it. The track is a catalyst for conversations. Communities have more places like that. Libraries for example:…

  • The Project Story Circle. Talking About Transitions.

    Bas
    12 Jan 2012 | 2:49 am
    “Once a photograph of the earth, taken from the outside is available, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.” – Sir Fred Hoyle in 1948. What do you draw when you are visualizing a project on a whiteboard? I draw an arrow from left to right that represents a timeline. Not always. But many times. The way you visualize, determines your focus. I’ve been playing with the simple but powerful concept of a Project Story Circle. The project is represented by a circular arrow and is divided in half with a horizontal line. The idea behind it is the following:…

  • Dropping Pebbles. Facilitating Sensemaking.

    Bas
    8 Jan 2012 | 7:43 am
    When I enter a room to facilitate a two hour workshop, eyebrows are raised. I look like my old aunt that packed for a weekend to visit relatives. Two large suitcases full of clothing. Just in case. You never know what the weather might turn out to be. Or if we decide to go to a fancy restaurant. So. I enter a room looking like my old aunt, only because we both carry way too much luggage for such a short period of time. I carry two plastic bags with post-it notes, index cards, colored paper of different thickness, permanent markers, white board markers, color markers, and tape. Yes. I know.

  • Sensemaking: Turning What We Know Into What Must Be.

    Bas
    5 Jan 2012 | 7:11 am
    When Columbus set out to discover America, he didn’t have a map that had America on it. That was the whole point of discovering it. Centuries ago people were sailing the world with incomplete maps. Some knew that the earth was a sphere. A globe. A ball. A round thing. Some maps were created representing the world as a sphere, without having all the information available. This is important for people working together in uncertain and ambiguous situations. The coin dropped when I read this story by Cynthia Kurtz where she talks about reading the book “Maps: Finding Our Place in the…

  • Embarking The Beagle. Hello 2012.

    Bas
    1 Jan 2012 | 12:47 am
    Twelve years ago some of my colleagues celebrated New Years Eve in the office. The world of IT was braising itself for The Millennium Bug. I was partying like it was 1999. Actually it was. I spent half of the first hour of 2000 stuck in an elevator. Not because of a software bug, but because 8 friends and me were in an elevator that had a capacity of four. When we switched from 1999 to 2000 we really expected a change. There was going to be a difference. There was a reason we had to do things before January 1st. You know. The big “division by zero” scare. When computers would use…
 
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    Content Management Connection

  • IBM Connections Conversations 1: Review of 3.0

    8 Feb 2012 | 3:14 am
    This is the first of a three part series on IBM Connections, their collaboration platform for social business. I recently had an extended conversation with Suzanne Livingston, Senior Product Manager for Connections. I have covered Connections before (see for example,...

  • Links for 2012-02-07 [del.icio.us]

    8 Feb 2012 | 2:53 am
    Technology is a response, not a point of departure! | Theknowledgecore's BlogThe evolution of Knowledge Management? No, time to evolve the D-I-K-W hierarchy! | Theknowledgecore's BlogKM is dead! Long live knowledge! | Theknowledgecore's Blog http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/17209314629/km-is-fuqed-and-as-a-strategic-movement-has-servedKM is FUQed! (And what’s more, I just don’t like it!) | Theknowledgecore's Blog http ...

  • My OutStart Blog Posts – January 2012

    7 Feb 2012 | 3:51 am
    As I mentioned on this blog I am now helping OutStart with their social media efforts as part of the OutStart team. I am one of several people contributing to our OutStart Knowledge Solutions Blog (see: My New Role within...

  • EMC Momentum User Group Coming to a City Near You

    6 Feb 2012 | 3:45 pm
    A while back I wrote about the new organizational structure for user groups within the EMC Information Intelligence Group (IIG). You can read the posting “New EMC Momentum User Group Site Now Available on EMC.com” in which I talked about the new site that was launched to support the user groups. For years, IIG has had user [...]

  • Entrance Pavilion, 9/11 Memorial Museum, 9:00AM

    6 Feb 2012 | 12:31 pm
    Photographed from the fifth floor of 123 Washington Street (W New York – Downtown). Permalink
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  • Three lessons across ten years of content technologies #trends #EntArch

    8 Feb 2012 | 8:28 am
    Late last year we marked our tenth year in business, which seemed like a good time to reflect on what has changed across the landscape of content, web, and collaboration technologies -- and what has not. So I came up with three major lessons that seemed worth sharing: Your internal competencies may be the biggest factor in your success implementing technology Every prediction of significant marketplace "consolidation" has been wrong, although M&A activity has proven painful for customers What makes your enterprise unique (and therefore successful) also plays out in how you apply…

  • eXo Platform quietly goes for Cloud and Mobile #Cloud #mobile

    8 Feb 2012 | 4:15 am
      The open source eXo portal platform  released their latest version 3.5 last week. eXo platform is a "portal-like" offering that we cover in our Portals and Content Integration report. It's based on the GateIn open source portal container that eXo co-developed with Red Hat JBoss. You'll find a few new features in the latest release (e.g., a wiki module), an updated look and feel, as well as various functional improvements. However, as with so many vendors, the focus here is really on cloud and mobile. First, mobile: eXo released mobile clients for Android and iOS devices.

  • Akamai, Limelight, or EdgeCast? Considerations when Selecting CDNs and OVPs #DAM #MediaAssetManagement

    7 Feb 2012 | 11:23 am
    This week we publish an Advisory Paper for our Digital & Media Asset Management research subscribers about key considerations when selecting a Content Delivery Network or an Online Video Platform. Many factors account for the ubiquitous role that video plays in the contemporary enterprise. Whether it’s a movie studio’s cinematic masterpiece, a broadcaster’s news clip, an animation studio’s cartoon, a university’s lecture, or video content in support of an agency-created brand strategy, video has become quite commonplace. From a consumer standpoint, the power…

  • Alfresco Version 4 is Buzzword Compliant #Cloud #mobile

    7 Feb 2012 | 6:13 am
    Last week open source document management vendor Alfresco released Version 4 of its (commercially-supported) enterprise edition package. As we've come to expect from Alfresco, it's long on buzzwords and interesting new directions, but a bit short on functional niceties and architectural continuity. The key features and implications for what Alfresco calls its "Cloud Connected Content Platform" are: The ability to publish content to external channels, such as YouTube, Facebook, SlideShare, Twitter and LinkedIn. However, you can only publish assets from Alfresco's document library to…

  • WebSphere Portal, Coremedia or EMC Documentum? #ecm #portals

    6 Feb 2012 | 8:14 am
    I enjoyed an excellent day in Oxford last week speaking (and listening to the other speakers) at a CMS Expert Group round table event. Many topics of interest emerged, but the one that underlay several discussions -- and is also close to my heart -- was, "When is a Web Content Management project not a Web Content Management project?" It may seem an odd question, but increasingly I see our subscribers asking questions about web self-service projects, albeit framing nearly identical requirements in very different terms. Take for example the following example, which is an aggregate of…
 
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  • They changed their decision

    Rock Star
    4 Feb 2012 | 8:09 am
    Wow, I have been hearing that the Komen Foundation has changed their decision regarding their funding to Planned Parenthood. I found that interesting because when the uproar started I thought I heard on the news that someone high up in the foundation had been quoted as saying that they would not cave into political pressure. And yet I also had been hearing that the reason that they had withdrawn the funds was due to political pressure. Whatever their reasons, I’m glad that they changed their minds and will be supporting Planned Parenthood.

  • Learning about the silver eagle

    Rock Star
    4 Feb 2012 | 8:00 am
    My father was showing me his collection of coins last night, and was telling me how he first developed an interest in collecting coins. He was telling me that his father gave him an uncirculated silver eagle that had been turned into a bolo tie and told him to keep it in a safe place because it was valuable. He showed me the tie, and told me that when he passes on that I need to realize that it is valuable and don’t just put it in a lawn sale.

  • Wow what an uproar

    Rock Star
    2 Feb 2012 | 5:59 pm
    What do you think about the uproar over the Komen Foundation Center discontinuing their financial grants to Planned Parenthood? All of my Facebook friends are very upset over it because the money that Planned Parenthood was getting was being used to pay for mammograms for women who were too poor to pay for them by themselves. Personally I think that is a real shame, and the excuses that the Komen Foundation is making do not ring true. Very sad day for women.

  • Planning a trip to Florida

    Rock Star
    2 Feb 2012 | 5:46 pm
    As soon as my father can get the Airstream out of the motor home repair repair shop we are planning to hit the road for a long overdue vacation in Florida. Disney World has always been one of our favorite vacation destinations, and we are going to spend an entire week there this time! I love going to Epcot Center and the the MGM park. I can hardly wait!

  • Observation

    Rock Star
    1 Feb 2012 | 5:36 pm
    My aunt was telling me about the progress of her worker’s compensation case, and was complaining that her attorney has avoided talking to her for over a year. She has called his office many times asking for a telephone appointment because his office is over an hour’s drive from home, and the office keeps denying her the appointment. Well suddenly, out of the blue the attorney’s office has called HER asking for an appointment to come see the attorney. My aunt again requested a telephone appointment because of the hardship the drive would cause. Wouldn’t you know it, now…
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  • The Facebook App Files: MOG On Repeat

    7 Feb 2012 | 1:20 pm
    In its plan to connect every single person in the world, Facebook drew attention last September when the network announced it would upgrade to a new and improved timeline structure, and subsequently release a series of “frictionless apps,” to enhance overall sharing experience for its club of 800 million. These specialized apps are hybrid tools created specifically for your profile page, enabling unique ways of exposing even more about yourself. From what you eat, where you travel, what you listen to, and where you shop, Facebook has invented an efficient way to broadcast…

  • DAM Lowdown: DAM in the Cloud, Adobe's Future Focus, Tips for Growing Your Audience

    7 Feb 2012 | 12:30 pm
    This week in the DAM lowdown: printers are providing DAM solutions for clients, Adobe’s VP of Enterprise Marketing explains the company’s fresh focus, tips on how to leverage your assets to grow your audience and a case study relating one company’s quest to find the right DAM solution. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free newsletter View upcoming events Find a new job

  • Amazon S3 Storage Gets Price Cuts Up to 13.5%

    7 Feb 2012 | 11:59 am
    Organizations and enterprises that bank on Amazon S3 services for their cloud storage needs might find themselves paying up to 13.5% less starting this February, as Amazon announces price cuts for S3, promising a "significant reduction" in storage costs. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free newsletter View upcoming events Find a new job

  • Collaboration in 2012: Predictions 5 & 6

    7 Feb 2012 | 11:55 am
    Following up on my last two posts, here are predictions five and six for what 2012 holds for collaboration in the enterprise: Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free newsletter View upcoming events Find a new job

  • SocialFlow Offers Scientific Approach to Boost Social Engagement

    7 Feb 2012 | 11:40 am
    Armed with its Optimization Technology, powered by applied mathematics and language analytics, along with the belief that language, not demographics or "influencer status," is the best predictor of social outcomes, SocialFlow announced it’s moving from beta clients to to public availability of its Optimized Publisher. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free newsletter View upcoming events Find a new job
 
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  • Off-Page SEO - Linkaufbau

    7 Feb 2012 | 3:30 am
    Neben einer ordentlichen Optimierung auf Ihrer Website (On-Page), ist gerade der Linkaufbau - das Off-Page SEO - der größte Hebel, um gute Positionen auf der ersten Ergebnisseite der Suchmaschinen erzielen zu können...

  • Performance von Magento Shops steigern

    6 Feb 2012 | 4:00 am
    Je länger die Ladezeit auf einem Shopsystem, desto mehr Abbrüche verzeichnet die Statistik. Um potentielle Kunden auf der Seite zu halten, sollten Shopbetreiber die folgenden acht Punkte berücksichtigen...

  • Contentmanager.de Relaunch

    2 Feb 2012 | 1:30 am
    Contentmanager.de wuchs im Laufe der Zeit inhaltlich und strukturell stark an. Ein umfassender Relaunch wurde unumgänglich und damit ein Projekt mit umfangreichem Migrations- und Entwicklungsaufwand...

  • Tipps für einen erfolgreichen Website Relaunch

    1 Feb 2012 | 2:30 am
    Ansprechendes Design, eine gute Benutzerführung und relevante Inhalte machen den ersten Eindruck einer Website aus. Der Relaunch wird allerdings unvermeidbar, wenn der Webauftritt nicht den gewünschten Mehrwert leistet...

  • Wettlauf um neue Domains

    24 Jan 2012 | 5:00 pm
    Das Adresssystem im Internet wird deutlich ausgeweitet. Möglich sind damit eine Vielzahl von neuen Domains, etwa für Unternehmen, für Branchen und für Regionen...
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  • Generis Survey of CMS Plans - 2012

    james_generis
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:03 pm
    Generis has completed our 2012 survey of CMS plans and requirements. We had many more responses this year than last, with over 60 companies responding. While far from being a comprehensive, scientific study, it shows some interesting trends compared to 2011, while companies continue to suffer some of the same challenges with their existing CMS platforms. Complete Story CMS Topics:  documentum alfresco sharepoint oracle cms survey Tweet Widget Google Plus One

  • Top Five Trends In Ecommerce Web Design

    Paul Smith
    7 Feb 2012 | 6:19 pm
    dotCommerce: Attention-grabbing ecommerce web design trends are constantly evolving and adapting to new ways of communication like smart phones, tablets and netbooks. Depending on the purpose and requirements, basic design elements like typography, navigation and colour schemes vary from site to site but all of them have functionality in common. Complete Story CMS Topics:  ecommerce cms web design Tweet Widget Google Plus One

  • Next Tiki Webinar to Highlight Recently Updated Tiki 8 Features

    ricks99
    6 Feb 2012 | 5:43 pm
    On February 16, the Tiki Community will present the second in  the year-long webinar series. Long-time Tiki Community members and contributors from Citadel Rock Online Communities Inc. will show a newly developed Tiki site that takes advantage of several features introduced in Tiki 8 including the Unified Search and advanced Tracker techniques.Following the demo, a developer-led discussion will explore several new features planned for upcoming Tiki releases. This is your chance for a sneak-preview of what's coming in Tiki 9! For complete details on the February webinar, see…

  • Rich customer journeys across multiple devices drives Braintree District Council's selection of Jadu's Universe web content management and mobile platform

    Jadu Ltd
    5 Feb 2012 | 3:16 pm
    Braintree District Council has announced a partnership with leading UK technology company Jadu to transform its current website and create a new mobile solution. Jadu specialise in the design and development of rich web experiences that support websites, intranets and extranets and mobile web applications. Their UK clients include more than 50 local Councils, Directgov (Government Digital Service), the universities of Leeds and Northampton and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.Tweet Widget Google Plus One

  • Hippo CMS in the Cloud, a step-by-step tutorial

    Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer
    4 Feb 2012 | 11:15 am
    Hippo CMS is a Java open source web content management system that enables a true, open and context-aware content strategy. It is targeted at medium to large organisations managing content for multi-channel distribution like, web sites and intranets.As with any Java applications and frameworks, this one is very easy to deploy to Jelastic!Let’s get started!1. Create an environmentIt will take only a minute for your environment with Tomcat 6 and MySQL to be created.Go to jelastic.com and sign up if you haven’t done so yet, or log in with your Jelastic credentials by clicking…
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    ECM Briefs

  • Weekly Recap: January 30-February 3

    Jessica Mott
    3 Feb 2012 | 4:24 am
    News of the WeekOn Monday, January 30th OpenText announced its success in becoming the first major vendor to attain VERS certification for its records management solution with Microsoft SharePoint 2010."For customers in highly regulated industries and government agencies, compliance with major standards for records management and archiving is critical to their ability to deploy SharePoint 2010 strategically across the enterprise," said Gianpaolo Carraro, Director, Microsoft Australia. "By taking on the effort to achieve VERS certification, OpenText demonstrates the value of a…

  • OpenText Named Financial Post Top 10

    Jessica Mott
    1 Feb 2012 | 10:10 pm
    We’re very proud to announce this week that OpenText has been named one of The Financial Post’s 10 Best Companies to Work For in 2012. This special designation recognizes fast-growing companies in Canada that offer strong career advancement opportunities along with leading-edge employee programs.The results of the competition were reported in a special supplement in The Financial Post on Feb. 1, which stated that a record 2,750 companies started the application process for the competition.For more details, read our press release here and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter…

  • If You're Thinking SharePoint...Think Big Picture

    Jessica Mott
    29 Jan 2012 | 9:48 pm
    Guest post by Dave MartinOriginally posted on my blog on SharePointProMagazineSharePoint, we all love it, we all have it, but we’re not all sure how we should be using it.  I for one would like to propose that we all do something very few of us actually think to do or had thought to do when we first got it, and that is: Plan for it.I don’t say this without good reason or quantitative support. There are a number of surveys out there that state one of the biggest challenges we have with SharePoint is a lack of planning and strategy. Now don’t misunderstand…this is…

  • Weekly Recap: January 23-27

    Jessica Mott
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:32 am
    News of the WeekOn Monday, January, 23rd OpenText announced an extension of its current agreement with Microsoft that will encompass OpenText BPM and Microsoft cloud technologies."This is another example of how OpenText and Microsoft are continuously tightening and strengthening our relationship for the benefit of our joint customers," said James Latham, Chief Marketing Officer for OpenText. "The Windows Azure cloud opens up a number of interesting new application possibilities while also giving customers more deployment options that will lead to greater efficiency, simplified…

  • Event Roundup: January 23-27

    Jessica Mott
    23 Jan 2012 | 4:27 am
    Have you registered for this week’s webinars? There’s still time!Wednesday, January 25th• 11:00am EST: OpenText Web Site Management: What's Next?Thursday, January 26th• 11:00am EST: Enhance the Multilingual User Experience in Content Server 10.0.0!
 
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    Content Management System (CMS) Reviews, News and Articles

  • Ecommerce Web Design: Six Hot Trends

    Mike Johnston
    8 Feb 2012 | 9:41 am
    Head-turning ecommerce web design is pivotal for the success of your online store as attention-grabbing pages publicise your brand. Just like any other creative sphere, web design is a fickle industry that constantly undergoes changes. With the development of new tools like HTML5 and CSS3, new design trends start to take off. Below there are six popular trends in creative web design that can be incorporated into your own web page. Go big As ecommerce is growing big, it is high time to use big images and fonts for big impressions. Tiny thumbnails are out as oversized headers, logos, fonts and…

  • Security Analysis updated to include MODx CMS and ExpressionEngine

    Mike Johnston
    6 Feb 2012 | 1:36 pm
    The recently posted “In Depth Analysis of Open Source Security” has been updated to include an additional open source CMS, MODx as well as one closed source system based on requests from the original post. Thanks to Philipp Krenn for taking on this additional work to his excellent first analysis. Check it out for the additional analysis.

  • The Drupal Release Model and Why it Needs to be Revamped

    Mike Johnston
    2 Feb 2012 | 10:44 am
    Drupal today released a total of four versions of the popular open source CMS. Yes, I said four. Drupal 6.23, 6.24, 7.11 and 7.12 releases were put on the servers today. On the release announcement, they are stating that they want to release version that include only security updates and versions that include security + bug fixes. While I can appreciate that they are trying to follow the “try to make everyone happy” model, they are, in my opinion, just adding to the general consensus that Drupal is a complicated and highly technical CMS. While this may very well be the target…

  • Interview with Vern Imrich, CTO of Percussion

    Mike Johnston
    1 Feb 2012 | 2:23 pm
    For this month’s newsletter, we spoke with Vern Imrich, CTO of Percussion to get his thoughts on the growth of the CMS market and more. Read on for some valuable insights. CC:  Please tell us a bit about yourself and your background leading up to working with Percussion. Vern Imrich VI:  My formal training and degrees are all in engineering, numerical methods and computer simulations.  But all along I was heavily involved in publications, running engineering magazines and other periodicals.  I became a pro at SGML, desktop publishing systems, and even typesetting languages.  Then,…

  • Liferay Introduces Liferay Sync with Powerful Document-Sharing Abilities

    Mike Johnston
    1 Feb 2012 | 12:00 pm
     Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, announced today the availability of Liferay Sync, a powerful document-sharing add-on to the Community Edition (CE) of Liferay Portal 6.1. Liferay Sync transforms the Liferay platform into a central, easy-to-use document sharing service. With Liferay Sync, users now have the ability to access documents stored within a Liferay instance from their mobile devices and desktops. Documents can be dragged and dropped into a synchronized folder and then be edited, moved, or deleted. Sync automatically takes care of…
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    CMSWire.com - All News

  • The Facebook App Files: MOG On Repeat

    7 Feb 2012 | 1:20 pm
    In its plan to connect every single person in the world, Facebook drew attention last September when the network announced it would upgrade to a new and improved timeline structure, and subsequently release a series of “frictionless apps,” to enhance overall sharing experience for its club of 800 million. These specialized apps are hybrid tools created specifically for your profile page, enabling unique ways of exposing even more about yourself. From what you eat, where you travel, what you listen to, and where you shop, Facebook has invented an efficient way to broadcast…

  • DAM Lowdown: DAM in the Cloud, Adobe's Future Focus, Tips for Growing Your Audience

    7 Feb 2012 | 12:30 pm
    This week in the DAM lowdown: printers are providing DAM solutions for clients, Adobe’s VP of Enterprise Marketing explains the company’s fresh focus, tips on how to leverage your assets to grow your audience and a case study relating one company’s quest to find the right DAM solution. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free newsletter View upcoming events Find a new job

  • Amazon S3 Storage Gets Price Cuts Up to 13.5%

    7 Feb 2012 | 11:59 am
    Organizations and enterprises that bank on Amazon S3 services for their cloud storage needs might find themselves paying up to 13.5% less starting this February, as Amazon announces price cuts for S3, promising a "significant reduction" in storage costs. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free newsletter View upcoming events Find a new job

  • Collaboration in 2012: Predictions 5 & 6

    7 Feb 2012 | 11:55 am
    Following up on my last two posts, here are predictions five and six for what 2012 holds for collaboration in the enterprise: Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free newsletter View upcoming events Find a new job

  • SocialFlow Offers Scientific Approach to Boost Social Engagement

    7 Feb 2012 | 11:40 am
    Armed with its Optimization Technology, powered by applied mathematics and language analytics, along with the belief that language, not demographics or "influencer status," is the best predictor of social outcomes, SocialFlow announced it’s moving from beta clients to to public availability of its Optimized Publisher. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free newsletter View upcoming events Find a new job
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    Hovering Over The Back Button

  • Is the C in CXM actually Credibility?

    Ian
    19 Jan 2012 | 6:48 pm
    I don’t often talk directly about my day to day work here on this blog, but I’ve just come back from a management team meeting and as we discussed our messaging and our own customer engagement journey, I found myself using a simple word time and time again and it was credibility. This then got me thinking about the Forrester term – Customer Experience Management, their flavour of defining an engagement solution strategy. If you’ve read this blog before, you’ll also know written about these various engagement flavours (WEM/CEM) before (for example here As you probably know I now work…

  • How Mobile Content Saved Christmas

    Ian
    13 Jan 2012 | 2:30 pm
    It is not quite the night before Christmas, I am standing in one of the big barn electrical stores and I have in my hand a piece of paper. It’s a list. But, not any list, the handwriting is a little crude and in the very deliberate hand of my youngest daughter it is addressed for the attention of Mr S Claus. I may not be the jolly red fellow, but I have been entrusted to deliver. As I look down the list, my daughter’s fervent wish is that she is delivered a ‘Wappy Puppy’. Through sketchy knowledge of the world of my daughters and a little eavesdropping I believe it is a game for the…

  • Gilbane 2011 – All the cool web kids are social, is your CMS ready to hang with them?

    Ian
    5 Dec 2011 | 3:36 pm
    This week I had the pleasure of returning to an old haunt as I was asked to present at Gilbane Boston. I say ‘old haunt’ as I was actually completely blindsided by the fact it was not at the Westin in Copley Place – which, by my reckoning, it had been there since before Vignette was founded (or when we were all children). Therefore my cunning plan to stay in my current favorite reasonably priced hotel in Boston (the Colonnade), positioned just outside the Copley place action was a bad one. Anyway, besides my mistake, the venue was actually great and better than the half mall/half hotel…

  • That Great Blog You Used to Write

    Ian
    2 Dec 2011 | 8:01 pm
    This week I was at Gilbane Boston and as I gorged on the bountiful smorgasbord of ‘key takeaways’, inspirational quotes and great conversation at this CMS industry love-in – I was disarmed by possibly the quote of my week. As I sought out my buddies Robert Rose and Scott Liewehr for mentioning me and my blog in a workshop they gave at the event – Robert said to me “yes, that great blog you used to write”. My immediate reaction was obviously “OUCH!” as I zeroed in on the “used to”, completely ignoring the fact he said “great” – and then I thought about it and…

  • Is your Audience Through the Social Media Keyhole?

    Ian
    2 Oct 2011 | 11:11 am
    According to the latest Social Media Report by Neilsen (respected monitoring/research company) Americans are now spending more time on Facebook than they are on any other website. American internet users spent 53.5 billion minutes on Facebook during May 2011, far higher than the next most visited site – in fact more than the next four most popular sites combined. Commentators are pointing to these numbers and referring to the shrinking web, that to an increasing number of folks Facebook is the web. Is it really? So what does this mean for content management professionals and content…
 
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    The CMS Myth

  • A Giant CMS Oops

    Jeff Cram
    4 Feb 2012 | 8:39 pm
    Someone working the New York Giants CMS got a little trigger happy, prematurely publishing a congratulatory Super Bowl message on the Giants website.  Oops is right. Let this be a reminder to us all to double check those workflow states. Enjoy the big game tomorrow. My official prediction: Patriots 34, Giants 24. Related posts:Gilbane SF: Let the Games Begin Eight ideas for nurturing online communities The global CMS reality

  • Tackling website migrations: An interview with David Hobbs

    Jeff Cram
    2 Feb 2012 | 12:44 pm
    Website migrations are one of the most misunderstood and underestimated parts of a CMS project. Thankfully we have David Hobbs to help demystify the process. David is principle at David Hobbs Consulting, and a self described ‘Large Website Consultant’  helping clients get control of their website transformations, from strategy through implementation oversight. I met David many Gilbanes ago and have been a loyal follower of his blog ever since. There are very few folks who cover the topic of website migrations with the detail and passion that David does. And by very few, I mean nobody…

  • Death by RFP: Don’t let it happen to you

    Jeff Cram
    1 Feb 2012 | 8:38 am
    A few months ago, a very large public university published an open RFP to re-platform its entire network of websites onto a new CMS. The RFP was posted in its state’s procurement website and an open source CMS community forum as an invitation to everyone and anyone. The name of the institution doesn’t matter, but I will say their men’s basketball team is very good. We rarely respond to open RFPs, but decided to give it a shot based on our success with similar projects in higher education. Visions of courtside seats for Final Four basketball games danced in our heads. The RFP…

  • The ease of use myth

    Jeff Cram
    30 Jan 2012 | 12:04 am
    When looking for a new CMS, most end users agree on one thing – It must be easy to use. Easy to use. We hear those three words a lot during the CMS selection process. It seems like a reasonable expectation, but it may just be the requirement that undermines your entire project. The problem is organizations rarely define what ease of use really means to them. In most cases, the requirement gets reduced to the lowest common denominator. The focus is on a slick looking interface, the WYSIWYG editor, and inline editing tools that allows anyone to navigate to a web page and do point and click…

  • Why project management matters…

    Jake DiMare
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:51 pm
    Last weekend I and fellow CMS Mythbuster John Eckman braved a snowstorm to attend the 2012 Western Massachusetts Drupal Camp. John gave a talk on a recent higher-ed project using Drupal and Kaltura. The day was filled with informative sessions on a number of different topics including a fantastic hour on the basics of Linux and Drush provided by a local tech guy named Rick Umali. My favorite talk was given by a collaborative of developers whose session title seemed to indicate a totally successful project outcome. Although the site they presented was absolutely stunning there were many…
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    Another DAM blog

  • Do you use a DAM Dashboard?

    Henrik de Gyor
    5 Feb 2012 | 11:01 pm
    When we drive most vehicles, these have a dashboard with gauges telling us the important things we need to know about what is happening with the vehicle and how it is going. The dashboard may indicate speed, how much fuel is left plus warnings like temperature in case things are not going as well as [...]

  • Another DAM blog: three years later

    Henrik de Gyor
    9 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    After three years of writing this blog post, I am still contributing a few times a month to one of the only blogs about Digital Asset Management (DAM) in the user and administrator perspective.

  • Predictions for 2011/2012 reviewed

    Henrik de Gyor
    3 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    The following were predictions about Digital Asset Management for 2011. Let us see how I well I predicted what occurred in 2011. Significant increase in the use of DAM on mobile devices (tablets/smart phones). A handful of vendors released mobile apps as a mobile client this year. Ok, that may not be represent a significant increase, but [...]

  • Top 10 podcasts about Digital Asset Management: Another DAM podcast from 2011

    Henrik de Gyor
    31 Dec 2011 | 11:01 pm
    Now that Another DAM podcast has been releasing weekly podcasts about Digital Asset Management every Thursday for over a year, I wanted to refresh the top 10 list based on what you listened to... Which are the most listened to podcasts by the listeners?

  • DAM DC Meetup: Digital Asset Management tour of Discovery

    Henrik de Gyor
    7 Dec 2011 | 5:00 am
    On January 5, 2012, Discovery Communications is hosting the venue for the DAM DC meetup group and giving a Digital Asset Management tour.
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    Irina Guseva: Random Thoughts on CMS, WCM, ECM and Other Acronyms

  • How to Select a Web CMS

    Irina Guseva
    19 Jan 2012 | 5:36 pm
    Filed under: cms, Enterprise Content Management, Open Source CMS, SaaS CMS, Web CMS, Web Content Management Tagged: cms, web cms

  • 2010: year in blogging

    Irina Guseva
    2 Jan 2011 | 2:32 pm
    The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire! The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health. Crunchy numbers The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2010. If each [...]

  • WEM Market: WCM + Ricotta

    Irina Guseva
    2 Jun 2010 | 7:49 pm
    The WEM Marketplace: Blueberries and Ricotta As Web CMS products reached maturity, a standard set of features became core for most vendors (i.e. templating, workflows, in-context content preview, integration APIs, scalable architectures, delivery and caching, etc.) Things are different with Web Engagement Management. The industry is still trying to figure out what this WEM thing is [...]

  • WEM to WCM is What Golden Gate Bridge to San Fran

    Irina Guseva
    27 May 2010 | 7:14 pm
    Nowadays, the relationship between Web CMS and Web Engagement Management is akin to the one between the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco: It has to be there, the city would look odd without it, and it's just plain necessary. When I look at the relationship between WCM and WEM, there are several key concepts that deserve attention. While both strategies/technologies are inherently different, they both first and foremost focus on content. Let's take a look at those concepts, starting with the 'C'.

  • Nexus One: A Gadget for Google Addicts

    Irina Guseva
    8 Jan 2010 | 1:23 pm
    If I haven’t admitted this in my earlier egotistical posts, now would be a perfect time. My name is Irina, and I am a Google addict. Anything Googly you can think of, I use: search (of course!) for anything from which mountain cabin to pick to translations from Dutch, Gmail, Voice, Calendar, Checkout, Maps, GTalk, Documents, Reader, Gears, Picasa, Health, etc. I even attempted to understand Google Wave.
 
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    Web Content Management

  • Styling Sitecore’s Web Forms for Marketers

    7 Feb 2012 | 10:50 am
    The Sitecore’s Web Forms for Marketers module is designed to create simple forms in a user-friendly manner. It provides users with web analytics and reporting capabilities. It also records and reports user information provided in forms, in both failure and success scenarios. Here, I’ll show you how to create a simple Contact Web Form as well as how to create and assign styles to it using Sitecore's Web Forms for Marketers. Create Contact Us form The Web Forms for Marketers module defines forms using items that are stored in the appropriate folders under…

  • OpenText Management Server 10: Navigation Manager Design

    24 Jan 2012 | 11:38 am
    The implementation of the Navigation in sites sometimes becomes a challenging task with a large quantity of pages. OpenText Management Server offers capabilities to easily accomplish this using the Navigation Manager tool. I developed a design that can be used to create navigations as well as links to pages that are connected to different section in the project. The Navigation Manager is a tool that can be used to build navigations in the Management Server. This tool uses the navigation structure and templates for the rendering. The navigation structure is the set of pages that may be…

  • OpenText Management Server and Delivery Server 10: Access Content Elements of Different Pages

    20 Jan 2012 | 1:39 pm
    OpenText Management Server and Delivery Server are excellent OpenText tools to create Enterprise Web Applications. Utilizing these tools, you can access Content Elements of different pages to display on other pages of your site. There are a few ways to do this, but this is what I found to be the most successful. Recently, one of Oshyn’s clients wanted to create a promotion module that would be displayed in the center of several specific pages. The content of each promotion pulls information from a Product Item. A Product Items contains elements like standard fields and text, and they…

  • 10 Reasons Why a CMS is Important to Your Business

    9 Jan 2012 | 4:17 pm
    There are many reasons why a Content Management System (CMS) is important to your business, I’ve pulled together ten and broken them into two categories: 5 Ways a CMS Will HELP Your Business Increase efficiency – Content can be publishing easily and efficiently as editing and revisions do not require visual design or coding knowledge. This allows for fast and efficient updates, saving your business cost and time. Increase your search engine ranking – To improve or maintain your search engine ranking your business has to remain relevant, and a good and easy-to-use CMS will…

  • Oshyn's Top 10 Favorite Posts from 2011

    20 Dec 2011 | 1:54 pm
    2011 has been quite a year for Oshyn and the Web Content Management world. We’ve been fortunate enough to work on several projects this year to help us expand our ever-evolving CMS knowledge base. Here are some of our best posts from 2011 – enjoy! Websites on Smartphones, iPad & Tablets – Using Touch Events for Image Scrolling and Gesture Events for Mobile Devices This two part post describes how you can add image scrolling and pinching to your mobile site using HTML5. Oshyn’s Review of the 2011 Gartner Magic Quadrant Check out this post to see Oshyn’s…
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    Digital Asset Management News

  • Cutting Through The Fog With DAM

    Naresh Sarwan
    6 Feb 2012 | 11:00 am
    In this article Nolan Jones at ProPrint examines the implications of cloud computing for printing businesses and how digital asset management may allow printers to not merely use the cloud, but to become the cloud. “This is digital asset management (DAM), which goes hand in hand with web-to-print storefront. As well as giving customers a [...]Cutting Through The Fog With DAM is a post from: Digital Asset Management News

  • DAM Strategies For Audience Growth

    Naresh Sarwan
    6 Feb 2012 | 9:09 am
    In this article, SEO expert Terry Van Horne discusses how digital asset management strategies can develop target audiences across multiple media channels and the role of the Digital Asset Manager in achieving those organisational goals. “Yes, there is a bit of optimization of videos, news, and images to get them into Google’s search results and videos ranking higher [...]DAM Strategies For Audience Growth is a post from: Digital Asset Management News

  • Henry Stewart DAM 2012 Conference Line Up

    Naresh Sarwan
    2 Feb 2012 | 9:44 am
    Henry Stewart, the first (and at one time only) DAM conference organiser have announced the dates for each of their conference venues in 2012: DAM New York – May 10th – 11th DAM Europe* – June 25th – 26th DAM Chicago – September 13th DAM Los Angeles – November 1st –  2nd * London, UK. [...]Henry Stewart DAM 2012 Conference Line Up is a post from: Digital Asset Management News

  • Cantemo Release White Label Portal DAM

    Naresh Sarwan
    2 Feb 2012 | 9:32 am
    Following on other white label DAM offerings such as FocusOPEN which we covered last week, Swedish vendor,  Cantemo have released a new version of Portal DAM which is targeted at the OEM market.  Although closed source, it does offer a range of different plug-ins and is clearly aimed at the intermediary market: “As an OEM [...]Cantemo Release White Label Portal DAM is a post from: Digital Asset Management News

  • EnterMedia 8.0 Released

    Naresh Sarwan
    2 Feb 2012 | 9:19 am
    The early 2012 surge of new DAM system releases from vendors continues this week.  Entermedia have released version 8.0 of their open source DAM system.  The new edition features improved layout, better handling of large scale repositories, access to recently added media and featured content: “EnterMedia 8.0 now provides quicker access to related assets, recent [...]EnterMedia 8.0 Released is a post from: Digital Asset Management News
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    Knowledge Management

  • New Google hack exposes internal home cameras

    6 Feb 2012 | 6:26 am
    Well the boffins over at Console Cowboys have hit the news in a big way by showing off some reverse engineering of web cam software, and figuring out how to find unsecured home web cams. Not all of them are home, some are office, and this is definitely creepy.

  • Did the Feds implant spyware on Megauploads internal computers?

    31 Jan 2012 | 9:56 am
    There is interesting and startling information coming out of CNet this morning that the FBI might have been able to plant spyware on the internal computers of Megaupload’s managers. If CIPAV was used to monitor Megaupload, then this case gets much more interesting.

  • Repress Web based proxy for Wordpress

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:54 am
    While I believe that technology must at some point find an accommodation with business and with government, my belief is not the only one out there. If you are running a self-hosted Wordpress web site, there is a new alpha version of a plugin that aims to address the censorship issue by providing a proxy plugin for your Wordpress site.

  • Robert Heinlein, Makerbot, and the Pirate Bay

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:16 am
    Back in the 1960’s and 1970’s one of the interesting items in the Robert Heinlein universe was an item called a “Universal Pantograph” that would replicate almost any physical item you could think of. Makerbot Industries makes a 3D printer that will replicate just about any object that it has a CAD/CAM drawing for. The Pirate Bay has now started sharing/releasing public domain 3D drawings that will work with the Makerbot printer, and is calling these items Physibles.

  • Judge rules that you have to decrypt your laptop

    24 Jan 2012 | 5:01 am
    If anything makes the argument for cloud computing, it is the recent report from CNET and everyone else’s commentary system that a person has to decrypt their hard drive when asked by the government.
 
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    Coveo Insights

  • Understanding the Building Blocks of Insight

    Diane Berry
    3 Feb 2012 | 12:29 pm
    Our latest eBook, “2012 Guide to an Insightfull Customer-Centric Organization,” helps organizations understand how to leverage the Insight inside their enterprise and social data and move towards a more customer-centric model of business. Over the next few weeks, I’ll share additional thoughts on each of the 10 steps that we advise companies follow to create stronger, more productive and customer-focused organizations. Recently, I wrote about the shift from being a product-centric organization to a customer-centric organization. As you look to make that journey, the first step is to…

  • Embrace Chaos for Customer Centricity

    Diane Berry
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:27 am
    Last week during a webinar discussion with Michael Maoz of Gartner, Leo Annab from CA Technologies and our CEO, Louis Tetu, I asked where each would recommend that a leader get started on the road to customer centricity. Not surprisingly, the answers were a fitting end to a wide-ranging, intellectually stimulating discussion about: • The nature of knowledge and Insight, applied to customer centricity • How CA Technologies has evolved its approach to managing and accessing information to place customers at the center of operations • How Gartner sees the relationship between customer…

  • Better Insight Drives Customer Centricity

    Diane Berry
    17 Jan 2012 | 2:06 pm
    Does this sound familiar: “This year, we will build our business processes to center on the customer.” Or, “This year, we will enhance the customer experience.” While placing customers at the center of operations and enhancing their experiences are common goals, they are not often successful initiatives. Too often, companies execute on customer centricity only in marketing and customer service—leaving out parts of the organization that have information important to enabling customer centricity and a better experience, and importantly, to ensure products are created that meet…

  • Can Knowledge Be Engineered?

    Diane Berry
    10 Jan 2012 | 6:53 am
    Considering that knowledge is ostensibly the most valuable asset of an organization—hence the term “knowledge capital”—it is not only interesting but perhaps essential to consider if knowledge can be engineered. If we can engineer knowledge—which would equate to better Insight, as Insight is the ability to gain knowledge to take action—we would in effect increase the efficiency and effectiveness of operations in, say, Engineering. In Engineering departments particularly, knowledge is king, and yet information is in multiple, siloed systems and engineers and others are often unable…

  • Steps to Unstructured Data Nirvana

    Diane Berry
    19 Dec 2011 | 7:57 am
    In my last blog we looked at the nature of mercurial data and identified two truths: 1. It is constantly changing; and 2. It exists in silos. Here, we will talk about what some companies are doing to use diverse and ubiquitous unstructured data to transform their businesses. Monitor. This is the first step that most companies have taken to get involved with unstructured, social media data related to their business. Listening can provide certain benefits, too, such as helping you to understand what people are saying about you. However, listening without responding doesn’t do much for your…
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    Hobbs On Tech -- All Blog Posts

  • Focused Team Engagement and the Alternatives

    David Hobbs
    6 Feb 2012 | 10:50 am
    Any website needs focus to achieve ongoing quality, and keeping this focus is a way of avoiding the redesign-forget-redesign cycle.  Once you have a sizeable website, you have many voices (for example the owners of different subsites or sections) competing for changes to the website and underlying CMS.  You need a way of product managing the implementation, so that you have a productive way of getting feedback.  Without this, you could wind up with an unsustainable website, catering to the whims of the loudest stakeholders.     Organizations are tempted to take…

  • Pushing Continuous Website Improvements: Posting It On a Wall

    David Hobbs
    6 Dec 2011 | 1:23 pm
    Pushing through ongoing changes on a website can be tough, whether it's because of inertia, other priorities, politics or other reasons.  Although there is no single magic potion, one thing can help, and that's prominently posting your near-term work program (which should have short delivery cycles).  Basically this would be listing out your upcoming work program, stating what you will be implementing when.  This could be on your intranet, in an email newsletter, on the main CMS login screen, or some other place that all internal stakeholders could easily see. Below are some of…

  • Rethinking the Content Inventory: Layers of Content

    David Hobbs
    11 Nov 2011 | 8:25 am
     This is the fourth blog post in a series on Rethinking the Content Inventory -- also see Exploration, Sources of Data, and Site Inventories. The older your site, the more layers of content you have.  This is similar to the layers of rock you see when driving through the mountains that have been blasted through for the highway.  Some layers may be harder and others softer.  On the editorial side, perhaps you had different writing style, editorial focus, editorial standards and general quality under different editors.  On the technical side, perhaps ten years…

  • Migrating NationalJournal.com: An Interview with Chris Contakes

    David Hobbs
    7 Sep 2011 | 9:47 am
    Chris Contakes, CTO of the Atlantic Media Company, led the technology migration of National Journal Group from a variety of platforms to Nstein in less than a year from concept to launch October last year. National Journal Group is an online and print publisher of in-depth non-partisan news and analysis covering politics, policy, and issues in Washington. National Journal Group’s flagship publications include National Journal Magazine, National Journal Daily, and The Hotline. The business embarked on an aggressive new digital strategy in 2010 to increase reach on the free side of the…

  • Rethinking the Content Inventory: Site Inventories

    David Hobbs
    24 Aug 2011 | 1:52 pm
    This is the third blog post in a series on Rethinking the Content Inventory -- also see Exploration and Sources of Data, and Layers of Content. Content inventories are often considered just long lists of content.  In fact, the top Google.com search result on "content inventory" is still the 2002 Adaptive Path article calling them "a mind-numbingly detailed odyssey").  But sites now are often getting way too complex (and big) to plod through every entry. Many web presences have multiple sites or perhaps subsites or major sections.  A multinational consumer…
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  • Styling Sitecore’s Web Forms for Marketers

    7 Feb 2012 | 10:50 am
    The Sitecore’s Web Forms for Marketers module is designed to create simple forms in a user-friendly manner. It provides users with web analytics and reporting capabilities. It also records and reports user information provided in forms, in both failure and success scenarios. Here, I’ll show you how to create a simple Contact Web Form as well as how to create and assign styles to it using Sitecore's Web Forms for Marketers. Create Contact Us form The Web Forms for Marketers module defines forms using items that are stored in the appropriate folders under…

  • OpenText Management Server 10: Navigation Manager Design

    24 Jan 2012 | 11:38 am
    The implementation of the Navigation in sites sometimes becomes a challenging task with a large quantity of pages. OpenText Management Server offers capabilities to easily accomplish this using the Navigation Manager tool. I developed a design that can be used to create navigations as well as links to pages that are connected to different section in the project. The Navigation Manager is a tool that can be used to build navigations in the Management Server. This tool uses the navigation structure and templates for the rendering. The navigation structure is the set of pages that may be…

  • OpenText Management Server and Delivery Server 10: Access Content Elements of Different Pages

    20 Jan 2012 | 1:39 pm
    OpenText Management Server and Delivery Server are excellent OpenText tools to create Enterprise Web Applications. Utilizing these tools, you can access Content Elements of different pages to display on other pages of your site. There are a few ways to do this, but this is what I found to be the most successful. Recently, one of Oshyn’s clients wanted to create a promotion module that would be displayed in the center of several specific pages. The content of each promotion pulls information from a Product Item. A Product Items contains elements like standard fields and text, and they…

  • 10 Reasons Why a CMS is Important to Your Business

    9 Jan 2012 | 4:17 pm
    There are many reasons why a Content Management System (CMS) is important to your business, I’ve pulled together ten and broken them into two categories: 5 Ways a CMS Will HELP Your Business Increase efficiency – Content can be publishing easily and efficiently as editing and revisions do not require visual design or coding knowledge. This allows for fast and efficient updates, saving your business cost and time. Increase your search engine ranking – To improve or maintain your search engine ranking your business has to remain relevant, and a good and easy-to-use CMS will…

  • Oshyn's Top 10 Favorite Posts from 2011

    20 Dec 2011 | 1:54 pm
    2011 has been quite a year for Oshyn and the Web Content Management world. We’ve been fortunate enough to work on several projects this year to help us expand our ever-evolving CMS knowledge base. Here are some of our best posts from 2011 – enjoy! Websites on Smartphones, iPad & Tablets – Using Touch Events for Image Scrolling and Gesture Events for Mobile Devices This two part post describes how you can add image scrolling and pinching to your mobile site using HTML5. Oshyn’s Review of the 2011 Gartner Magic Quadrant Check out this post to see Oshyn’s…
 
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  • Wolfram Alpha launching new pro version

    Ron Miller
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:53 am
    Wolfram Alpha will be launching an intriguing new professional version this week that provides some compelling features for people looking to use the power of Wolfram Alpha custom data and images. Wolfram Alpha, you may recall, is the data-driven search engine that launched in 2009. Since then, it has made some great strides with perhaps its biggest coup being that it is the underlying database that powers the Siri voice search on the iPhone 4S. When it launched in 2009, I wrote a piece called "Wolfram Alpha Doesn't Impress Me." The problem was the answers you got depended very much on…

  • Guidance Software buys CaseCentral for eDiscovery one-two punch

    Ron Miller
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:31 am
    Guidance Software announced yesterday it was purchasing CaseCentral giving them both an on-premise and cloud eDiscovery solution with the stroke of a pen (on the purchase and sales agreement). Guidance EnCase, its flag ship eDiscovery product provides the on-premise piece giving customers legal hold, identification, collection, preservation and processing functions on-premise, while CaseCentral provides a cloud solution that lets teams that might not be in the same location share and process data in the cloud. As you can imagine, Guidance president and CEO Victor Limongelli was pleased at the…

  • eZ launches cloud content management solution

    Ron Miller
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:58 am
    eZ Systems announced this week it was teaming with Finland-based cloud solutions provider Ixonos to launch a cloud-based version of its open source web CMS, eZ Publish along with set of cloud platform services. The new product is called eZ Cloud Elastic. The idea is to provide the resources you need to run your website such as elastic server requirements to deal with fluctuating traffic. Ixonos will supply the cloud platform aspects of the solution and eZ Publish will provide a cloud-based version of eZ Publish Enterprise. For more information, see the press release.

  • Apps make gains on browser, but usage remains essentially even

    Ron Miller
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:03 am
    Although apps made impressive gains in the latest comScore mobile data report, they remain in a virtual deadheat between folks who use apps versus those who use a browser. In fact, comScore reported that for the period of Sept. 11, 2011 through Dec. 11, 2011, 47.6 percent of mobile users downloaded an app, which was up 5.1 percent from the previous report. Meanwhile, 47.5 percent used the browser, up 4.6 percent from the previous reporting period. That's a statistical dead-heat for all intents and purposes. Interestingly, I wrote a post last year about the apps versus browser…

  • Socialtext teams with NetDocuments for social cloud content management

    Ron Miller
    6 Feb 2012 | 4:30 pm
    Socialtext announced this week a partnership with cloud content management vendor NetDocuments that brings together social content with content management in an all-cloud solution. One of the key features of an enterprise social system is the ability to collaborate and share documents and other information in a social way, but in order to take advantage of that content at some future date, it requires a content management layer. And when you have both solutions in the cloud, it means that users can access that information from any connected device at any time. Sarah Nichols, director of…
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